Did Rolling Stone Just Kill War Reporting?

Rolling Stone's bombshell profile of Stanley McChrystal has cost the general his job.
The question many journalists are now posing is: has the story also damaged the military's relationship with the press? Undoubtedly, says National Journal's foreign affairs
correspondent James Kitfield. He spoke with NPR's Diane Rehm on
Wednesday:

There will be no embeds in Afghanistan in higher
headquarters... for quite a while. This has probably set back the
reporting quite a ways because the trust between the military and the
media has just been shot out of the water.

NPR's Frank James
agrees:

It took decades following the Vietnam War for the mutual
distrust between the military and media to be broken down. Many in the
military blamed the media for losing the war.

While the wariness was
never completely gone, and there were good reasons for at least some
suspicion to remain, reporters embedded with units in Iraq and
Afghanistan have often reported back approvingly to colleagues back home
about the access they've received. The ice had melted.

But many
generals and other senior officers will now likely think twice about
giving reporters the kind of access Rolling Stone writer Michael
Hastings had.

Apparently, the military has already begun clamming
up (via Sonia Smith, via Michael Calderone). NBC's chief foreign
correspondent Richard Engel says "a media blackout has been issued" and
officials "who control access to the troops, do not want any of the
soldiers talking."